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Mining cryptocurrency can be risky. The amount of technical expertise required is far above most people’s knowledge and time. Buying specialised hardware which does the job for you is an option, but with the hidden costs in the form of electricity and the ever-evolving market this investment can easily become your ruin. Certainly, currently thereRead more

Companies have an increasing need to collect, store and process data. Now more than ever, information is power, but not only power. Collecting user or company data is at the core of most companies. Investing in data analytics grants companies great revenue, and is a must to stay at the front of the current market.Read more

June list If you feel a paper should belong to another category, or that we missed a relevant paper just let us know. Participation is most welcome! Categories: Attacks and defenses Blockchain-general Blockchain-noncrypto uses Ethereum Financial Internet of Things (IoT) Machine learning Other cryptocurrencies Proof of Work (PoW) alternatives Smart contracts Attacks and defenses ARead more

May list If you feel a paper should belong to another category, or that we missed a relevant paper just let us know. Participation is most welcome!   Categories: Attacks and defenses Blockchain-general Ethereum Financial Internet as a Service (IaaS) Internet of Things (IoT) Mathematical Mining Proof of Work (PoW) alternatives Attacks and defenses AdaptiveRead more

This post aims at being a list of most of the blockchain-related scientific papers published each day. Our main sources are the two arXiv categories cs.CS and q-fin. We will publish a new post per month, containing the papers of that month. The aim is to update at least weekly the post of the currentRead more

Dear all, As we are not aware of any daily updated repositories for scientific blockchain papers, we have started building one. Our main sources are the two arXiv categories cs.CS and q-fin. We have created some categories, and papers appear under one category only. We hope to update this list daily. This is the linkRead more

With the price of cryptocurrencies bouncing back, interest is reawakening in crypto mining, not least with a range of coins offering viable alternatives to mining Bitcoin. Which simply begs the question, where do you start? If you want to get a mining rig together of your own, and get the necessary software for it, whatRead more

Disclaimer: this article is not, in any way, investment advice. It is merely an analysis of one of the many potential factors which may be relevant to the rises and falls in the price of altcoins. — In economics, probably one of the biggest motivations and challenges is to predict how the market will behave,Read more

In theory, you can get to the nub of Bitcoin mining with a piece of paper and a pencil. Appreciating things have moved on a little since it was posted, this 2014 article at Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper-1640353309 not only looks at the mathematics behind mining Bitcoin, but how to sit there and puzzle things out theRead more

After a difficult year, the price of the leading cryptocurrency – Bitcoin – is enjoying a huge resurgence at the time of writing, with its price jumping up to just over $8,000, having tumbled to below $4,000 at the end of 2018. This has been welcome relief to those who have invested in Bitcoin miningRead more